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Catholics & Cultures: A Panoramic View In Search Of Greater Understanding, Stephanie M. Wong

Journal of Global Catholicism

While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics & Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential …

The Value Of Online Resources: Reflections On Teaching An Introduction To Global Christianity, Hillary Kaell

Journal of Global Catholicism

Reflecting on my experience teaching Introduction to Global Christianity, this essay ponders questions at the heart of undergraduate teaching: How can we encourage students to utilize online sources? How can we empower them to seek out answers to their questions? It offers practical examples of how I have used the Catholics & Cultures website in my classroom at a large public university. In particular, I reflect on my experience working with students who are mostly of Catholic heritage, but from many cultural and social contexts.

Teaching Sexuality On The Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn Toward The Longue Durée, Marc Roscoe Loustau

Journal of Global Catholicism

I present a close reading of the Catholics & Cultures (C&C) website’s treatment of sexuality-related issues and discuss this material in relation to debates about how to teach sexuality in religious studies and theology classrooms. The C&C website occasionally and intermittently uses a typical “contemporary issues” approach that considers sexuality in relation to legal and legislative decisions and government policies. In contrast, country profiles consistently situate sexuality in relation processes like nation building, urbanization, and lay Catholics’ growing authority. My interpretation highlights the site’s decision to emphasize the longue durée, long-term and deep structural processes driving cultural and religious changes. …

Ritual Among The Scilohtac: Global Catholicism, The Nacirema, And Interfaith Studies, Anita Houck

Journal of Global Catholicism

More than six decades after its publication, Horace Miner’s 1956 article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” remains a reliable pedagogical tool, remarkably successful in helping students see their own ethnocentric biases. Catholics & Cultures has potential to do similar work. The site lacks some of what makes Miner’s text so effective, in particular its capacity to bring about a sudden shift in perception. The site also shares some of the article’s limitations, particularly in focusing on ritual to the relative exclusion of other aspects of religion. That said, the site can help students gain the religious literacy and develop the …

Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder

Journal of Global Catholicism

The dynamics of religious resurgence reveal the important ways that religious ritual and performance are meaning making spaces which are not self-contained or cut off from the rest of culture, but rather are a key locus of cultural change. A renewed emphasis on the busy intersections of meaning making – as rituals are connected, disconnected, and reconnected to other domains of social life – would improve the utility of the Catholics & Cultures website for understanding global cultural change. And a renewed emphasis on cultural change would also provide a better means for exploring reflexively by seeking to understand both …

A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht

Journal of Global Catholicism

Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly …

Introducing Catholics & Cultures: Ethnography, Encyclopedia, Cyborg, Mathew N. Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

In introducing the Catholics & Cultures site and the articles in this special issue, this essay initially locates the overall Catholic & Cultures project within the traditions of ethnography and encyclopedia. Drawing extensively on the work of J. Z. Smith, this essay reflects upon the theoretical implications of emphasizing the diversity of Catholicism in and through a web-based platform that facilitates comparative study and pedagogy. This essay then more specifically considers the web-based aspects of Catholics & Cultures by identifying a nascent cyborgian aesthetic in the site and considering how the site might eventually engage post-modern themes and concerns.

Introduction: Finding Meaning In Life And History, Michael T. Desantis

Of Life and History

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The Purple, December 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• College Scenes, Old and New
• To Anglomania
• Letters to Living Writers
• When Christmas Time Comes 'Round
• A Man With a Mission
• The Bells of Yule
• A Martyr's Christmas
• Christmas Musings
• A Christmas Home-Coming
• The End of the Season
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• A Review of the Football Season of '99
• Includes photographs of dormitory rooms.

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 237,

The Purple, November 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Edward A. Scott
• The Corner Brick
• Letters to Living Writers
• The Passing of Summer
• The Leader of His Class
• Beware!
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photograph of College Refectory

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 161.

The Purple, October 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Letters to Living Writers
• Other Days
• A Symposium on Poetry
• A Curious Manuscript
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 92.

The Purple, July 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Fiftieth Graduation Day at Holy Cross College
• From South Worcester to Cuba and Back
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photographs of Class of '99, ;99 football team, commencement

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 33.

The Purple, May 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Rudyard Kipling
• A Long Farewell
• One Man's Career
• Seeking the Muse
• Rest
• A Name in Arcady
• A Fantasie
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Wanted,--An Original Genius
• My Guiding Star
• The Humor of the Law
• A Sad Remembrance
• Student Celebration on the Occasion of Final Vows
• The Vigil of St. Ignatius
• Greetings of Former Students
• The Vows at Montmarte
• The Vows of To-Day
• Xavier
• Victories of the Future
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• program for Final Vows celebration

The Purple, December 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Some Thirty Years Ago
• A Foot-ball Soliloquy
• The Story of the Class Journal
• From Rome to Ireland
• The Locomotive's Christmas Whistle
• A Football Game (?) Played at Christmas, A. D. 1400
• Bill Brown's Campaign
• Ballade
• Christmas: A Short History
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• A Tribute of Gratitude
• Photograph of 1898-99 Football team, A.B.R. Sprague, Irving Swan Brown, Henry S. Pratt, Matthew B. Lamb, A.A. McLoughlin, John F. Harrigan, Daniel Downey, Rev. T.J. Campbell SJ …

The Purple, November 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Some Uses and Abuses of Novel-Reading
• Villanelle
• College Athletics-Are They Good or Bad?
• A Dream of Football
• Some Personal Experiences of a Surgeon in the Late War
• The Happy Leaves
• Was Gladstone's Attitude Toward the Church Honest and Consistent?
• Rondeau
• Campaigning With the 12th U.S. Infantry
• Rondeau
• The Snowflakes
• Editorials
• The College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table
• Photographs of Peter O'Shea '92, Thomas P. Conneff '96, Rev. James Healy '49,

Volume information appears …

The Purple, October 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Imagination; Its Importance and Its Cultivation
• Campaigning with the 12th U.S. infantry
• Dear Little Rose
• What Have the Monks Done for English Literature?
• Ballade
• A Few Phases of Senior Life at Holy Cross
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• The Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table
• A Strange Communication
• Photographs of rooms in Fenwick Hall, Allie H. Farmer '98

Volume information appears on p. 93.

The Purple, July 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Year Endeth
• Commencement Week
• Alma's Blessing to '98
• Materialism and Its Tendencies
• The Song of June
• The Catholic College Graduate
• Loyalty
• Socialism and Christianity
• The Purpose of the College
• The Yankee Eight
• The Catholic Church and the Working Boy
• "He Hath Done All Things Well"
• An Old University
• Class of '98
• The Purple-Prize Winners
• The Staff of '97-'98
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Photographs of Class of 1898, Class of 1900, students,Camera Club, emblem of …

The Purple, July 1897

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Commencement Week
• Pity
• Visit of the Very Rev. Edward I. Purbrick, S.J.
• Ignatius the Soldier
• The Genius of the Middle Ages
• The Love of a Father
• The College Graduate the Future Statesman
• Religion the Corner-stone of Government
• Augustine at Milan
• A Liberal Education and Society
• Out of a Dream
• Edward the Confessor
• Dr. Conaty a Monsignor
• For the Best
• Brother Michael Hogan, S.J.
• A Word on Georgetown's Graduate School
• After the Storm-A Fantasy
• Editorials
• The Alumni
• The …

The Purple, June 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The First Catholic College in New England
• The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
• Alma's Soldier Sons
• Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
• Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
• Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
• To the Sacred Heart
• A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
• Vesper
• Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
• Fancy …